November 1 “When the cloud tarried… then the children of Israel… journeyed not.” (Num. 9:19.) THIS was the supreme test of obedience. It was comparatively easy to strike tents, when the fleecy folds of the cloud were slowly gathering from off the Tabernacle, and it floated majestically before the host.Read More …

October 31 “Likewise also the Spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because heRead More …

October 30 “Let us run with patience.” (Heb. 12:1.) TO run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to suggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal. We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards theRead More …

October 29 “He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” (Mal. 3:3.) OUR Father, who seeks to perfect His saints in holiness, knows the value of the refiner’s fire. It is with the most precious metals that the assayer takes the most pains, and subjects them to theRead More …

October 28 “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ… and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:4-6.) THISRead More …

October 27 “All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.” (Psalm 42:7.) They are HIS billows, whether they go o’er us, Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam; Or smooth and sparkling, spread a path before us, And to our haven bear us safely home. They areRead More …

October 26 “He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone.” (Matt. 14:23.) THE man Christ Jesus felt the need of perfect solitude—Himself alone, entirely by Himself? alone with Himself. We know how much intercourse with men draws us away fromRead More …

October 25 “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. (John 16:24.) DURING the Civil War, a man had an only son who enlisted in the armies of the Union. The father was a banker and, although he consentedRead More …

October 24 “I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument.” (Isa. 41:15.) A BAR of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars;Read More …

October 23 “There hath not failed one word of all his good promise.” (1 Kings 8:56.) SOME day we shall understand that God has a reason in every NO which He speaks through the slow movement of life. “Somehow God makes up to us.” How often, when His people areRead More …